Chinese poker. Chinese poker, also Pusoy (but not Pusoy Dos or Russian Poker), is a card game that has been played in the Asian community for many years. It has begun to gain popularity elsewhere because it has many features of an "exciting" gambling game: Gameplay[edit] Chinese poker is typically played as a four-person game, though it can also be played with two or three. Playing a hand[edit] Chinese Poker. If a player makes three flushes or three straights they automatically win the hand, regardless of the other players' hands. Scoring[edit] The stakes played for in Chinese poker are known as units: an amount of money agreed on before the game starts. The two most common scoring systems used in Chinese poker are the 2-4 scoring method, and the 1-6 scoring method.
In the 2-4 method the player receives 1 unit for each of the three hands they win, and 1 unit called the overall unit is awarded to the player who wins two out of the three hands, or all of the three hands. Example[edit] Royalties[edit] Naturals. Chinese poker. Late Night Poker. Late Night Poker is a British television series that helped popularize poker in the 2000s. It used "under the table" cameras that enabled the viewer to see each player's cards. The show became a cult hit on Channel 4 in the UK when it first aired in 1999. The show originally ran for six series between 1999 and 2002. After a couple of spin-off series, Late Night Poker Ace and Late Night Poker Masters, it returned in 2008. Late Night Poker 2011[edit] The series returned to Channel 4 for its 10th series in 2011.
Sponsored by Gala Coral Group, 32 players competed for the $150,000 first prize. The series was broadcast on Tuesday nights after midnight from 3 October – 6 December 2011. History[edit] Back in 1999, the Cardiff-based television production company Presentable approached Channel 4 with the idea of producing a series in the form of a poker tournament. The first series aired in July 1999 and very quickly built a cult audience. Late Night Poker ran for six series from 1999 until 2002. Poker After Dark. Full Tilt Poker.net - Learn from the Pros. HighstakesDB - High Stakes Poker - Online Results, Reports, Poker Bonus and Rakeback. Tom Dwan. Thomas Dwan Jr. (born July 30, 1986)[1] is an American professional poker player who regularly plays online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker, where he plays under the screen name "durrrr".
In November 2009, Dwan became a member of Team Full Tilt.[2] and re-signed as a brand ambassador for the site on October 15, 2012.[3] Dwan has won prize money in live poker tournaments and has appeared on NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship, the fourth, fifth, sixth & seventh seasons of Poker After Dark,[4] the third, fourth and fifth seasons of Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game, and the fifth and sixth seasons of GSN's High Stakes Poker.
He attended Boston University before dropping out to pursue poker full-time.[5][6] Poker[edit] Online poker[edit] In mid November 2009, a player from Sweden using the online name "Isildur1" challenged Dwan to a series of heads-up No Limit Holdem cash games. Live tournaments[edit] High Stakes Poker. The participants on the show include both professional poker players and amateur players. The show was hosted by AJ Benza in the first five seasons, alongside Gabe Kaplan. Starting with the sixth season, Kara Scott replaced Benza as Kaplan's co-host, with Scott conducting interviews from the poker room floor. Starting with the seventh season, Norm Macdonald replaced Gabe Kaplan as Scott's co-host. Programming history[edit] The first season of High Stakes Poker, taped at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, was first broadcast in January 16, 2006 and consisted of 13 episodes until April 10, 2006, hosted by A. J. The second season, taped at The Palms and consisting of 16 episodes, premiered on June 5, 2006 and ended on September 18, 2006.
The third season, consisting of 13 episodes, was taped at the South Point Casino and premiered on January 15, 2007 and ended on April 9, 2007. On April 2, 2007, GSN announced that High Stakes Poker would return for a fourth season, again taped at South Point. Phil Ivey. Phillip Dennis "Phil" Ivey Jr.[1] (born February 1, 1976) is an American professional poker player who has won nine World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables. Ivey is regarded by numerous poker observers and contemporaries as the best all-round player in the world today.[2][3][4] Poker[edit] Ivey first began to develop his poker skills by playing against co-workers at a New Brunswick, New Jersey, telemarketing firm in the late 1990s.
One of his nicknames, "No Home Jerome", stems from the ID card he secured to play poker in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in his teenage years.[5] He was given the nickname "The Phenom" after winning three World Series of Poker bracelets in 2002. His other nickname is "the Tiger Woods of Poker".[6] Live poker[edit] World Series of Poker[edit] In 2009, Ivey won his 6th bracelet in the $2,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Event of the 2009 WSOP. World Poker Tour[edit] Other notable tournaments[edit] Durrrr Challenge - Patrik Antonius vs. Tom Dwan - durrrr vs. Antonius.